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Died. Edward Thomas Bedford, 82, president of Corn Products Refining Co., oldtime associate of Oilmen John Davison Rockefeller, Col. Henry Huddleston Rogers and Charles Pratt; of heart dis ease; in Green Farms, Conn...
Frederick Thomas Bedford, 50, last week mourned the death of his father, Edward Thomas Bedford, 82. Between them there was deep family affection. Between them there was also the friendship which arises from long competition between men. For the late E. T. Bedford was president of Corn Products Refining Co. and his son was president of its smaller but potent rival, Penick & Ford...
...Bedford wished to find some business for his son Frederick. The son saw a future in the corn products business and Mr. Bedford agreed. In 1901 New York Glucose Co. was formed. Mr. Bedford became its president, without salary. His son was made treasurer and given the reins. Bitter competition arose from Corn Products Co. ("The Glucose Trust"). The elder Bedford became more & more active. In 1906 Corn Products, its earnings vanishing, pleaded for mercy. It was granted in the form of a merger. Mr. Bedford abandoned his oil interests in order to head the new Corn Products Refining...
...system finally got working, it performed the following typical feat: "At 8:15 one morning a telegram was received ordering [from the supply base] 4,596 tons of supplies, including 1,250,000 cans of tomatoes, 1,000,000 lb. of sugar, 600,000 cans of corn beef, 750,000 lb. of tinned hash and 150,000 lb. of dry beans. At 6:15 in the evening this colossal requisition which required 457 cars to transport was loaded...
...Jackson named them, for other saccharifiers to recognize, d-fructose 1, 2, and 3. Although inulin-derived fruit sugar suitable for household and factory use will soon be sold as cheaply as grape (corn sugar is the same) or cane sugar (a more complex sugar), fruit sugar purified for laboratory research costs $27.22 a pound. Dr. Jackson's three new sugars are not for sale. To produce the small quantities he has, cost at the rate of $50,000 a pound. Laboratory inulin costs $90 a pound. Its natural sources are dandelions, dahlias, goldenrod and. above all, the Jerusalem...